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The Ice Storm: The Criterion Collection DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: R
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 113 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008
  • Packaging: Keep Case
  • Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Director: Ang Lee
  • Cast: Joan Allen , Christina Ricci , Tobey Maguire , Kevin Kline , Henry Czerny , Adam Hann-Byrd , David Krumholtz , Jamey Sheridan , Elijah Wood , Sigourney Weaver , Katie Holmes , Michael Cumpsty , Courtney Peldon
  • Genre: Drama
  • Color: Color
  • Includes:
    Disc One:
    - New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Ang Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes
    - Audio commentary featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus
    - Theatrical trailer

    Disc Two:
    - New documentary featuring interviews with actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver, and Elijah Wood
    - New video interview with novelist Rick Moody
    - Deleted scenes
    - Footage from an event honoring Lee and Schamus at New York's Museum of the Moving Image
    - Visual essays on the look of the film, featuring interviews with the cinematographer, production designer, and costume designer
    - Plus: A new essay by film critic Bill Krohn
  • Release Date: 1997
Suburban Connecticut, 1973. While the Watergate hearings blast from the TV, the wayward Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentments, sexual experimentation, and cultural confusion. With crystalline clarity, characteristic subtlety, and even a dose of wicked humor, Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee adapts Rick Moody's acclaimed novel of American malaise into a trenchant, tragic portrait of lost souls. Featuring a cast of tremendously talented adults (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver) and kids (up-and-coming stars Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood), The Ice Storm is one of the finest films of the nineties.

Expert Review:
Before there was American Beauty there was Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. Set in 1973 in the suburbs of Connecticut, adultery, teenage sex, drinking, and key parties run rampant. One of the most underrated films to come out of the 1990s, it’s an expertly directed and acted film featuring great performances by Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, and Sigourney Weaver. By Scott Youngbauer of ScreenPicks

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